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Do you want the opportunity to leverage your skills to make a direct impact on the world’s leading life sciences and consumer products companies? Join Clarkston Consulting as a Data Scientist to help deliver innovative business solutions to our market leading clients as a part of an expert team.<br/>
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<b>What You’ll Do as a Data Scientist</b><br/>
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Clarkston gives you the opportunity to deliver great solutions, become recognized as an industry expert, and help build a great practice.<br/>
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As a Data Scientist at Clarkston you will:<br/>
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<ul><li>Conduct exploratory analysis, produce descriptive statistics and explain phenomena based on data</li><li>Develop statistical and machine learning models for POC and production-ready applications</li><li>Drive ideation and execution of experiments and in-market tests with an eye on accuracy and statistical significance</li><li>Provide coaching and mentorship to junior analysts who are developing their skills</li></ul><br/>
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How You’ll Grow</b><br/>
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At Clarkston, we feel that we provide the greatest value to our clients through a combination of our industry expertise, business process knowledge, and consulting excellence.<br/>
Beyond your day-to-day responsibilities, throughout your career as a Data Scientist you will:<br/>
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Have the support and mentorship of your Clarkston colleagues and leader<br/>
Own your career – you'll be able to take charge of your career journey with diverse opportunities to lead and expand your skillset both at the client site and within the firm<br/>
Have the opportunity to make a real and positive impact not only the clients you work with, but on the firm as well<br/>
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<b>What We’re Looking For</b><br/>
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We are looking for versatile leaders and innovators with 3 years of relevant work experience in producing Machine Learning applications in production environments to work on diverse and challenging consulting projects to deliver true value to our clients.<br/>
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An ideal candidate as a Data Scientist would have gained experience in one or more of the following:<br/>
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<ul><li>Experience drawing insights from large data sets and manipulating data using a variety of methods and tools</li><li>Solid base understanding of statistical techniques around correlation, regression, outlier detection, and significance</li><li>Experience using a variety of machine learning techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning and their real-world advantages/drawbacks, including classification, regression, time series forecasting, clustering, and other use cases</li><li>Experience optimizing, testing, and documenting results of machine learning models</li><li>Knowledge of common machine learning pitfalls and how to avoid them, including normalization, feature selection, optimization, and validation</li><li>Experience querying databases and familiarity with SQL script languages</li><li>Knowledge of tasks relating to getting into a production environment and maintaining results: analyzing model drift, version control, security strategy, and monitoring and alerts</li><li>Understanding of the tool landscape with ability to research and form opinions around the best vendor solutions for our clients</li><li>Share your technical solutions and product ideas with the team through design review, pair programming, code/model reviews, and tech talks</li><li>A 4 year degree (In MS/PhD in Math, Statistics, Engineering or other relevant field for data science applications) – this is a requirement for any employment at Clarkston</li></ul><br/>
The ability to travel 80-100% to our trusted client sites is required<br/>
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<b>Who We Are</b><br/>
Founded in 1991, Clarkston Consulting delivers technology and management solutions to market leaders in the life sciences and consumer products industries. At Clarkston, we drive success - for our clients, for our people, and for our firm. We utilize a team approach leveraging our collective expertise and industry knowledge to solve our clients’ business challenges.<br/>
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Visit joinclarkston.com to learn more about our culture, benefits, and opportunities. We hope you’ll join us!</body>
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